Caller ID 2.0 powered by LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Flickr

November 25th, 2009 by Dan Seyer | located in Features | trackback

Phones are by nature social so when we decided to turn your browser into a phone we couldn’t resist bringing together the callers social feeds with the phone call - and inventing Caller ID 2.0. When a call comes in, Ribbit Mobile will reach into the social web and bring you the recent LinkedIn updates, Facebook updates, Tweets, and Flickr photos of the person calling you. Ribbit Mobile lets you know not just who is calling but what the caller has been up to on the web.

In the settings, members enter Linked In, Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr credentials (securely with OAuth, of course) and Ribbit Mobile takes care of the rest by looking into the members accounts and finding matches as calls are made. If more than one match is found, Ribbit Mobile will ask you to select the right person.

Are there other social feeds you’d like us to include in our Caller ID 2.0 feature? Post your suggestions in the comments below, or add them to the ideawall. We’d love to expand this feature out and appreciate any feedback you have.

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One Response to “Caller ID 2.0 powered by LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Flickr”

1. jodischneider.com/blog » Ribbit: Google Voice with social web, your own number, (and eventually a fee) Says:
   November 26th, 2009 at 6:33 am

   [...] own (presumably mobile) number. What really got my attention, though, was a new social feature they call “Caller ID 2.0″: Ribbit wants to leverage your social networks for Caller ID When a [...]